Anjelica Huston Quotes

When you don't have a nine-to-five job, and you're with somebody who gets a tremendous amount of attention, it's not that you resent it - it's that you have all that extra time to think about it.

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• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Word
  • Survival

• I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Small
  • Try

• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
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• You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
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• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Up
  • Through
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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Achievement

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
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  • Me

• During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Church
  • Singing
  • London

• Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Writing
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  • Talent

• In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

  Magic Johnson
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  • Early

• I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Strong
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• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
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• At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Life

• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Character

• One of my complaints is that you've got far more scientists than ever before but the pace of discovery has not increased. Why? Because they're all busy just filling in the details of what they think is the standard story.

  

  Nigel Calder
  • Story
  • Details
  • Scientists

• If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Death
  • Process
  • Still

• Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Movie
  • House
  • You

• When you don't have a nine-to-five job, and you're with somebody who gets a tremendous amount of attention, it's not that you resent it - it's that you have all that extra time to think about it.

  

  Anjelica Huston
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  • Job
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